Proverbs 21:6
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, `Is' a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 13:11 : 11 Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.
- Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.
- Prov 8:36 : 36 And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
- Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.
- 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
- Prov 20:14 : 14 `Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.
- Prov 22:8 : 8 Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
- Prov 30:8 : 8 Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,
- Jer 17:11 : 11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.
- Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?
- 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, 10 for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;
- Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!
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